Biography Ivanov Vsevolod Vyacheslavovich
(1895 – 1963)
A prose writer, a playwright.
He was born on February 12 (24 n.) In the village of Lebyazhye in Semipalatinsk province, in the family of a village teacher. After graduating from the village school and studying for a year at the Pavlodar agricultural school, Ivanov went to work as an assistant to the clerk in a shop, then as a typewriter, a sailor, a loader and even a circus artist. He traveled extensively in Siberia, the Urals and Kazakhstan.
From 1915 he began to publish – the first was the story “The Son of Autumn”, followed by “Gold”, “Hatred” “Dream of Ermak”, “Two Galleys” and a story “On the Irtysh,” which was sent to M. Gorky and received his approval.
In 1921 Ivanov with great difficulty, having the certificate from the newspaper “Soviet Siberia”, where it was written “… is sent to the disposal of M. Gorky,” gets to Petrograd.
During the Patriotic War, Ivanov appeared with journalistic articles, wrote stories on military and historical topics (“At the Borodino Field,” 1943). In 1947 Ivanov’s memoirs “Meetings with Maxim Gorky” came
In the postwar years, Ivanov spoke much as a publicist in defense of peace and culture. In 1953 he published the play “Lomonosov”, in 1960 – the novel “We Go to India”. However, part of the works created by him did not see the light during the author’s lifetime (“Sisyphus, son of Aeolus”, “Agasfer”, the novel “Vulcan” were published posthumously). He died. Ivanov July 15, 1963 in Moscow.
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